30/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - At the annual reception for French ambassadors at the Elysee Palace in Paris on 29 August, the French President Jacques Chirac said that along with Germany, Spain, Algeria, Brazil and Chile, at the United Nations Summit in New York on 14-16 September, France would be unveiling a plan to introduce an international solidarity donation from the cost of airline tickets (the idea has already been discussed by the ECOFIN Council on several occasions but does not have unanimous support from all Member States). During his address, Chirac said that in order to ensure the idea was put into practice as widely and as rapidly as possible, France would be convening a ministerial conference on the issue in 2006.